Sleave (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used with object), sleaved, sleav·ing.
  1. to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
noun
  1. anything matted or raveled.
  2. a filament of silk obtained by separating a thicker thread.
  3. a silk in the form of such filaments.
noun
  1. a tangled thread
  2. a thin filament unravelled from a thicker thread
  3. anything matted or complicated
verb
  1. to disentangle (twisted thread, etc)
Sleave (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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